Home > Industry/Domain > Oil & gas
Oil & gas
Terms concerning oil and gas as a fossil fuel and natural resource.
11Categories 39167Terms
Add a new termContributors in Oil & gas
Oil & gas > Drilling
washover pipe
Oil & gas; Drilling
In fishing operations, a large-diameter pipe fitted with an internal grappling device and tungsten carbide cutting surfaces on the bottom. The washover pipe can be lowered over a ...
encapsulation
Oil & gas; Drilling
In drilling fluid parlance, the absorption of a polymer film onto cuttings and wellbore walls to form a coat or barrier. The term is usually applied to shale encapsulation by ...
U-tube effect
Oil & gas; Drilling
In a U-tube manometer, the height of one leg of fluid changed by altering the density of some of the fluid in the other leg. In a well with drillpipe in the hole, the string of ...
water-to-cement ratio
Oil & gas; Drilling
In a cement slurry, the ratio of water to cement expressed as percent; the number of parts of water used to mix with 100 parts of cement.
Sub-categories
- corrosion inhibition (0)
- Downhole (49)
- Drilling (9514)
- Environmental management (93)
- Fuel handling (16)
- Horizontal directional drilling (7)
- Offshore oil exploration (2047)
- Oil (4406)
- Oil & gas instrumentation (856)
- Oilfield (22159)
- Pipeline related (90)